is a 2013 Japanese
animated
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historical drama film
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written and directed by
Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Anime, Japanese ani ...
based on his 2009 manga of the same name. Produced by
Studio Ghibli
is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo."Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment". ''Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment''. Retrieved 2020-12-14. It has a strong presence in the animation industry and has exp ...
and distributed by
Toho
is a Japanese entertainment company that primarily engages in producing and distributing films and exhibiting stage plays. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. ...
, the film stars the voices of
Hideaki Anno
is a Anime, Japanese animator, filmmaker, Film producer, producer, and voice actor. His most celebrated creation, the Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise), ''Evangelion'' franchise, has had a significant influence on the anime television industr ...
,
Miori Takimoto,
Hidetoshi Nishijima,
Masahiko Nishimura,
Morio Kazama,
Keiko Takeshita,
Mirai Shida,
Jun Kunimura
is a Japanese actor who has performed in Cinema of Japan, Japan, the Cinema of the United States, United States, and Cinema of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He won Best Supporting Actor and the Popular Star Award at the 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards for ...
,
Shinobu Otake, and
Nomura Mansai.
The film portrays a fictionalised account of the life of Japanese aeronautical engineer
Jiro Horikoshi
was a Japanese aeronautical engineer. He was the chief engineer of several Empire of Japan, Japanese Fighter aircraft, fighter aircraft designs used during World War II, most notably the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, as well as the NAMC YS-11.
E ...
, in particular his engineering career from his time at the
University of Tokyo
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in 1923 to the first test flight of the
Mitsubishi Ka-14 on 4 February 1935. Juxtaposed with the historical events is a fictional romance of Horikoshi's, inspired by the similarly named semi-autobiographical novel ''
The Wind Has Risen'' by
Tatsuo Hori. The film was originally intended to be Miyazaki's final feature film, before Miyazaki reversed his decision and eventually directed ''
The Boy and the Heron''.
Released on 20 July 2013 in Japan, ''The Wind Rises'' was the highest-grossing Japanese film of 2013. Though it caused some political controversy and criticism in Asia, it was met with critical acclaim. The film was nominated for several awards, including the
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
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, the
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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It was first introduced at the 7th Golden Globe Awards f ...
, and the
Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, winning the latter.
Plot

In 1918, a young
Jiro Horikoshi
was a Japanese aeronautical engineer. He was the chief engineer of several Empire of Japan, Japanese Fighter aircraft, fighter aircraft designs used during World War II, most notably the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, as well as the NAMC YS-11.
E ...
longs to become a pilot, but his nearsightedness prevents it. Inspired by a magazine, he begins having recurring dreams of flying with his idol, Italian aircraft designer
Giovanni Battista Caproni, aboard the
Caproni Ca.60. Caproni tells him that he has never flown a plane in his life, and that building planes is better than flying them. Five years later, following the real Ca.60's failure, Jiro is an aeronautical engineering student at
Tokyo Imperial University
The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public university, public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several Edo peri ...
. While traveling home from a visit with family, he meets a young girl, Nahoko Satomi, traveling with her maid Kinu. The
Great Kantō earthquake suddenly hits, and Kinu's leg is broken. Jiro helps Nahoko carry her to Nahoko's family home, leaving without exchanging names.
In 1925, Jiro graduates with his friend
Kiro Honjo, and both are employed at aircraft manufacturer
Mitsubishi
The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.
Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group traces its origins to the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company that existed from 1870 to 194 ...
amidst the
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and ...
. They are assigned to perfect a fighter plane, the
Mitsubishi 1MF9, for the
Imperial Army. During a test, it breaks apart in midair and is rejected. Pivoting their plans, Mitsubishi sends Jiro and Honjo to the
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was the German Reich, German state from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclai ...
in 1929 to obtain a production license for a
Junkers G.38 aircraft, intending to build a bomber. Although
Hugo Junkers
Hugo Junkers (3 February 1859 – 3 February 1935) was a German aircraft engineer and aircraft designer who pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes and flying wings. His company, Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (Junkers Aircraft and ...
welcomes them, the two men are blocked from obtaining complete plans by the ''
Sicherheitspolizei
The often abbreviated as SiPo, is a German term meaning "security police". In the Nazi Germany, Nazi era, it referred to the state political and criminal investigation security agency, security agencies. It was made up by the combined forces of ...
''. With them and their coworkers discouraged by how far back Japan's aeronautics technology is from the rest of the world, Jiro returns to Japan, while Honjo stays and eventually develops the
Mitsubishi G4M
The Mitsubishi G4M is a twin-engine, land-based medium bomber formerly manufactured by the Mitsubishi Aircraft Company, a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and operated by the Air Service (IJNAS) of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to ...
.
In early 1932, Jiro is promoted to chief designer for a fighter plane competition sponsored by the
Imperial Navy, but his design, the
Mitsubishi 1MF10, fails testing in 1933 and is rejected. Disappointed, he takes a vacation at a summer resort in
Karuizawa. There he reunites with an adult Nahoko, who has been searching for him since they first met. The two quickly develop a romance, assisted by a German tourist named Castorp. Critical of
Nazi Germany
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, Castorp privately tells Jiro that
Adolf Hitler
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has apprehended Junkers for resisting
Nazism
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, and that Germany must be stopped from declaring another world war, this time allied with Japan. He then flees arrest from the
Special Higher Police.
Later, Nahoko is diagnosed with
tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...
, so Jiro asks Nahoko's father for his blessing to marry her, and the two are engaged. However, Nahoko wishes to wait until she recovers to marry, and moves back in with her family. Wanted in connection with Castorp, Jiro hides at his supervisor Kurokawa's home while he works on a new fighter aircraft project for the Imperial Navy. Jiro briefly leaves when Nahoko suffers from a
pulmonary hemorrhage. After Jiro briefly tends to her, Nahoko decides to check into a mountain
sanatorium
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Sanatoriums are often in a health ...
to recover, but cannot bear being apart from Jiro and returns to be with him. Kurokawa and his wife marry the two and allow the couple to stay in their home with Nahoko's father's permission. Jiro's sister Kayo, a doctor, warns Jiro that his marriage to Nahoko will end tragically as tuberculosis is incurable. Though Nahoko's health deteriorates, she and Jiro enjoy their fleeting time together.
Jiro leaves for the test flight of his new prototype aircraft, the
Mitsubishi Ka-14. Knowing that she will die soon, Nahoko leaves farewell letters for Jiro, her family, and friends and discreetly leaves the house in a vain attempt to return to the sanatorium. At the test site, Jiro is distracted from his success by a gust of wind, suggesting Nahoko's passing.
In 1945, after Japan has
lost World War II
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, Jiro dreams of Caproni again, regretting that his aircraft was used for war. Caproni comforts him, saying that Jiro's dream of building beautiful aircraft was nonetheless realized, in the form of his masterpiece—the
A6M 'Zero' fighter. Nahoko's spirit also appears, encouraging her husband to live on. After her spirit departs, Jiro and Caproni walk together into their shared kingdom of dreams.
Voice cast
Production
Development
''The Wind Rises'' was directed by
Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Anime, Japanese ani ...
,
his first feature film since ''
Ponyo
is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi, and distri ...
'' in 2008.
Miyazaki began to conceive a story to illustrate the life of Jiro Horikoshi in 2008.
He published the story as a manga series in the ''Model Graphix'' magazine's April 2009 to January 2010 issues as a continuation of his ''
Delusional Notes'' series, and it was collected into one volume in October 2015. The title is an
allusion
Allusion, or alluding, is a figure of speech that makes a reference to someone or something by name (a person, object, location, etc.) without explaining how it relates to the given context, so that the audience must realize the connection in the ...
to
Paul Valéry
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.
In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, m ...
's 1920 poem "Le Cimetière Marin" (''The Graveyard by the Sea'').
The film also references
Tatsuo Hori's 1937 semi-autobiographical novel ''
The Wind Has Risen'' (),
and uses visuals to depict Hori's words.
[ The manga portrayed certain characters as anthropomorphized pigs, employing a design reminiscent of that seen in Miyazaki's film '']Porco Rosso
is a 1992 Japanese Anime, animated Adventure film, adventure fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1989 manga ''Hikōtei Jidai''. The film stars the voices of Shūichirō Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Akemi Okamura and Akio ...
'' (1992).
The story in the manga follows the historical account of Horikoshi's aircraft development up to 1935 (the year of the Mitsubishi A5M's maiden flight), and intertwines with fictional encounters with Caproni and Nahoko Satomi (). The scenes with Nahoko in the manga included elements from the novel ''The Wind Has Risen'',[ in which Tatsuo Hori wrote about his life experience with his fiancée, Ayako Yano (), before she died from tuberculosis. The name ''Nahoko Satomi'' was created from the female protagonist of another novel by Tatsuo Hori, ''Nahoko'' ().
Characters frequently discuss ]Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...
's novel ''The Magic Mountain
''The Magic Mountain'' (, ) is a novel by Thomas Mann. It was first published in Germany in November 1924. Since then, it has gone through numerous editions and been translated into many languages. It is widely considered a seminal work of 20t ...
'', and, in a letter to Nahoko, Jiro names his fleeing German friend "Mr. Castorp" after its protagonist. The character himself is a caricature of Stephen Alpert, who was once the executive director of Ghibli's international division. He left the company in 2011 for personal reasons, but was instrumental in Ghibli's overseas expansion. He was asked to return to Japan to model for the character's appearance and a suitable voice.
After the release of ''Ponyo'', Miyazaki wanted his next film to be a sequel to the film, but producer Toshio Suzuki proposed to adapt the manga ''The Wind Has Risen'' instead. At first, Miyazaki rejected the proposal because he created the manga as a hobby and considered its subjects not suitable for children, the traditional audience of Studio Ghibli's features. However, he changed his mind when a staff member suggested that "children should be allowed to be exposed to subjects they are not familiar with". He was also inspired to make the film after reading a quote from Horikoshi: "All I wanted to do was to make something beautiful".
Music
The 32-track film score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...
was composed and conducted by Joe Hisaishi
, known professionally as , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, inclu ...
, and performed by the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
The is a Japanese symphony orchestra administratively based in Tokyo. The orchestra primarily performs concerts in Tokyo at the Suntory Hall, but also gives concerts at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall and also performs in Yokohama at the Yokoha ...
. The film also includes singer-songwriter Yumi Matsutoya's 1973 song . Matsutoya had collaborated with Studio Ghibli on ''Kiki's Delivery Service'', which features her songs and . Producer Suzuki recommended "Hikō-ki Gumo" to Miyazaki in December 2012, feeling the lyrics resembled the story of ''The Wind Rises''. "Das gibt's nur einmal" (English: ''It only happens once'') is the German song Hans Castorp sings while playing the piano at Hotel Kusakaru in the film.
The film's soundtrack was released in Japan on 17 July 2013 by Tokuma Japan Communications.
Release
''The Wind Rises'' was to have been released simultaneously with '' The Tale of the Princess Kaguya'', another Ghibli film by Isao Takahata
was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films. Born in Ujiyamada, Mie Prefecture, Takahata joined Toei ...
, in Japan in mid-2013. It would have been the first time the two directors' works were released together since the release of ''My Neighbor Totoro
is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. It stars the voices of Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto and Hitoshi Takagi, and focuses on two young sisters a ...
'' and ''Grave of the Fireflies
is a 1988 Japanese Anime, animated war film written and directed by Isao Takahata, and produced by Studio Ghibli. It is based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical Grave of the Fireflies (short story), short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka ...
'' in 1988. However, ''Princess Kaguya'' was delayed until 23 November 2013, and ''The Wind Rises'' was released on 20 July 2013.
The film played in competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival
The 70th annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 28 August to 7 September 2013, at Venice Lido in Italy.
Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci was the jury president for the main competition. He was previously the presiden ...
. It had its official North American premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...
, although a sneak preview was presented earlier at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival
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, outside of the official program.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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distributed the film in North America through its Touchstone Pictures
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banner. English dubbing was directed by Gary Rydstrom
Gary Roger Rydstrom (born June 29, 1959) is an American sound designer and film director. He has been nominated for twenty Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies, and has won seven times.
Life and career
Rydstrom was born in Chicago. H ...
. Disney held a one-week release window in the Los Angeles
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theatrical circuit beginning on 8 November 2013, so that it could qualify for Academy Award
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s consideration. It was released theatrically on 21 February 2014 in select cities, with wide release
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on 28 February. It was released in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2014 by StudioCanal
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.
Home media
Walt Disney Studios Japan released the movie on Blu-ray Disc
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and DVD
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in Japan on 18 June 2014. The Japanese DVD release sold 128,784 units until 7 December 2014 and a further 6,735 units between 8 December 2014 and 7 June 2015, for a combined DVD units .
In the United States, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. (doing business as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company. The division handles the distribution of Disney's films, television series, a ...
released the film on Blu-ray Disc
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and DVD
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on 18 November 2014. The release includes supplement features with storyboards, the original Japanese trailers and TV spots, a "Behind the Microphone" featurette with members of the English voice cast, and a video from when the film was announced to be completed. The audio for both English and Japanese language is monophonic (DTS-HD MA 1.0). Even though the North American rights Disney owned on Studio Ghibli films expired in 2017, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment continued to distribute ''The Wind Rises'' until 2020, when GKIDS re-released it on DVD and Blu-ray on 22 September 2020 with distribution through Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory, LLC, doing business as Shout! Studios (formerly doing business as Shout! Factory, its current legal name), is an American home video and music distributor founded in 2002 as Retropolis Entertainment. Its video releases, issued i ...
. The re-release took longer than with other Studio Ghibli titles as it was still a fairly new film, and Disney still held the US rights.
The film has grossed over from physical DVD and Blu-ray sales in the US . In the United Kingdom, it was 2015's fifth-best-selling foreign-language film on home video
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, and third best-selling Asian film (below '' The Raid 2'' and ''The Tale of the Princess Kaguya'').
Like many other Ghibli films, it is also available on Netflix.
Reception
Box office
The film grossed () at the Japanese box office, the highest-grossing film in Japan in 2013.
Critical response
On the review aggregator
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website Rotten Tomatoes
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, 88% of 182 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.0/10. The website's consensus reads: "''The Wind Rises'' is a fittingly bittersweet swan song for director Hayao Miyazaki."[ ] Metacritic
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, which uses a weighted average
The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others. The ...
, assigned the film a score of 83 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
Critic David Ehrlich rated the film 9.7/10 and called it "perhaps the greatest animated film ever made". He wrote: "While initially jarring, Miyazaki's unapologetic deviations from fact help ''The Wind Rises'' to transcend the linearity of its expected structure, the film eventually revealing itself to be less of a biopic than it is a devastatingly honest lament for the corruption of beauty, and how invariably pathetic the human response to that loss must be. Miyazaki's films are often preoccupied with absence, the value of things left behind and how the ghosts of beautiful things are traced onto our memories like the shadows of objects outlined by a nuclear flash. ''The Wind Rises'' looks back as only a culminating work can." Peter Bradshaw
Peter Nicholas Bradshaw (born 19 June 1962) is a British writer and film critic. He has been chief film critic at ''The Guardian'' since 1999, and is a contributing editor at ''Esquire'' magazine.
Early life and education
Bradshaw was educat ...
of ''The Guardian
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'' called the film "visually exquisite and emotionally charged". Film critic Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode (, ; ; born 2 July 1963) is an English film critic, musician, radio presenter, television presenter, author and podcaster. He is the co-presenter (with Ellen E. Jones) of the BBC Radio 4 programme ''Screenshot'', and co-presenter ...
called it "a rich treat for the eye and soul alike".
Scott Foundas of '' Variety'' wrote "The score by frequent Miyazaki collaborator Joe Hisaishi recalls Nino Rota in its lilting accordion-and-mandolin main theme." Dana Stevens of ''Slate'' called it as a "romantic orchestral score". Alonso Duralde of ''TheWrap
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'' wrote "Joe Hisaishi contributes another in his series of legendary scores for the director."
''The Japan Times
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History
''The Japan Times'' was launched by ...
'' gave the film three and a half out of five, and stated: "A visually sumptuous celebration of an unspoiled prewar Japan." In a review for ''The Asia-Pacific Journal'', Matthew Penney wrote: "What Miyazaki offers is a layered look at how Horikoshi's passion for flight was captured by capital and militarism", and that it was "one of Miyazaki's most ambitious and thought-provoking visions as well as one of his most beautifully realized visual projects".
Controversy
In Japan, ''The Wind Rises'' received criticism from both the Japanese political right and from the Japan Society for Tobacco Control. Miyazaki added to the controversy by publishing an essay in which he criticized the proposal by Japan's right-wing Liberal Democratic Party to change Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution to allow Japan to remilitarize.
Miyazaki also attracted political criticism from South Korean internet users, who argued that the Zero represents Japanese military aggression and that many planes were assembled by Korean forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of ...
. Miyazaki told South Korean journalists that " orikoshiwas someone who resisted demands from the military...I wonder if he should be liable for anything just because he lived in that period." In an interview with the ''Asahi Shimbun
is a Japanese daily newspaper founded in 1879. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan.
The ''Asahi Shimbun'' is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan along with the ''Yom ...
'', Miyazaki said he had "very complex feelings" about World War II since, as a pacifist
Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ''a ...
, he felt militarist Japan had acted out of "foolish arrogance". However, he also said that the Zero plane "represented one of the few things we Japanese could be proud of— heywere a truly formidable presence, and so were the pilots who flew them".
Accolades
''The Wind Rises'' received 13 nominations and 17 awards for "Best Animated Feature", including one Academy Award nomination. Hayao Miyazaki won the award for Writing in an Animated Feature Production at the 41st Annie Awards. The film's musical composer, Joe Hisaishi
, known professionally as , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, inclu ...
, received the Japan Academy Prize for Best Music Score. The film was also selected as "Audience Favorite – Animation" at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
See also
* '' The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness'', a 2013 documentary about the making of the film.
*'' The Eternal Zero'', a 2013 live-action drama film based on a novel of the same name that also features the Zero fighter plane
* ''Porco Rosso
is a 1992 Japanese Anime, animated Adventure film, adventure fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1989 manga ''Hikōtei Jidai''. The film stars the voices of Shūichirō Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Akemi Okamura and Akio ...
'', a 1992 Ghibli animated film also directed by Miyazaki which contains a number of similar thematic elements.
* ''The Cockpit The Cockpit can refer to:
* Cockpit Theatre, a 17th-century theatre in London (also known as the Phoenix) that opened in 1616
* The Cockpit, a theatre in London, England that opened in 1970
* ''The Cockpit'' (OVA), a three-part anime series made ...
'', a similar 1993 anime OVA focusing on World War II Axis
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** Coordinate axis of a coordinate system
*** ''x''-axis, ''y''-axis, ''z''-axis, common names ...
allegiances, also featuring an emphasis on the warplane
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* Combat aircraft, ...
s.
* ''Grave of the Fireflies
is a 1988 Japanese Anime, animated war film written and directed by Isao Takahata, and produced by Studio Ghibli. It is based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical Grave of the Fireflies (short story), short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka ...
'', another Ghibli anime film from 1988 covering the Japanese perspective on World War II and its effects on civilians.
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2013 drama films
2013 films
Adaptations of works by Hayao Miyazaki
Animated film controversies
Animated films about aviation
Animated films based on actual events
Animated films set in Germany
Animated films set in Japan
Animated films set in the 1910s
Animated films set in the 1920s
Animated films set in the 1930s
Animated films set in the 1940s
Anime and manga about marriage
Anime and manga controversies
Anime films based on manga
Annie Award–winning films
Anti-war films about World War II
Anti-war films
Drama anime and manga
Drama films based on actual events
Existentialist anime and manga
Films about dreams
Films about earthquakes
Films directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Films produced by Toshio Suzuki
Films scored by Joe Hisaishi
Films set in 1918
Films set in 1923
Films set in 1927
Films set in 1929
Films set in 1932
Films set in 1933
Films set in 1945
Films with screenplays by Hayao Miyazaki
Historical anime and manga
Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year winners
Japanese adult animated films
Japanese aviation films
Japanese biographical drama films
Japanese historical drama films
The Kennedy/Marshall Company films
Military anime and manga
Nippon Television films
Philosophical anime and manga
Romance anime and manga
Satellite Award–winning films
Slice of life anime and manga
Studio Ghibli animated films
Toho animated films
Toho films
Touchstone Pictures animated films
War in anime and manga
Works about earthquakes
World War II aviation films